Chris Dodd (RAT-Conn) plans book on his role in ‘trying to save’ U.S. economy

Journal Inquirer ^ | 2/13/09 | Alex Wood

[Libloather]

Dodd plans book on his role in ‘trying to save’ U.S. economy
By Alex Wood
Journal Inquirer
Published: Friday, February 13, 2009 11:08 AM EST

In an apparent effort to burnish an image that has been tarnished by the national financial crisis — and by an unusually favorable mortgage deal on his two homes — U.S. Sen. Christopher J. Dodd is planning a book on the crisis and his role in dealing with it.

The book, to be published in June, is titled “Thirteen Days: How the Financial Crisis Changed the Politics of Washington,” according to an announcement on the Web site of Publishers Weekly, a trade organ for the book industry.

The authors are Dodd, a Connecticut Democrat, and Lary Bloom, former editor of the Hartford Courant’s Sunday magazine supplement, Publishers Weekly reported.

The book is to be published by Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, which belongs to Random House Inc.

“The book will provide an intimate look at how, over the course of 13 days last September, a financial crisis led to panic and meltdown,” Publishers Weekly reported.

Dodd, who chairs the Senate Banking Committee, “will also describe how he and others acted swiftly to try to save the American economy,” Publishers Weekly added.

Telephone messages left for Dodd’s press secretary, Brian DeAngelis, weren’t immediately returned early today.

Dodd’s approval ratings have fallen in the wake of the disclosure that he got unusually favorable financial terms on mortgages for his Washington townhouse and his East Haddam home under a “VIP program” set up by Countrywide Financial Corp.’s chief executive officer for influential “friends.”

Dodd announced this month that he plans to refinance the mortgages.

“Knowing what I know now, I regret ever having done business with Countrywide,” he told reporters. He also said he and his wife, Jackie Clegg Dodd, have never been friends with Angelo Mozilo, Countrywide’s chief executive.

Dodd and his wife have acknowledged that they knew about the VIP program, while saying they thought it involved only upgraded customer service, such as being able to get someone on the telephone without having to go through automated messages.

The book isn’t the first collaboration between Dodd and Bloom. They also co-authored the book, “Letters from Nuremberg: My Father’s Narrative of a Quest for Justice.” The book is a compilation of letters from Dodd’s father, Thomas J. Dodd, when he was prosecutor at the Nuremberg war crimes trials after World War II.

The elder Dodd served as a U.S. senator from Connecticut from 1959 to 1971.

Crown recently released a paperback version of “Letters from Nuremberg,” according to Bloom’s Web site.

[SERKIT]

Required reading for our time:

Lord of the Flies
Animal Farm
1984
Rules for Radicals
Atlas Shrugged
Mein Kampf

[mewzilla]

From last May....

Bertelsmann Is Shifting Back to Roots

[mewzilla]

Hey, Liz, check this out....

What Bertelsmann Wants from Obama

[rlmorel]

To that, you will absolutely want to add:

The Road To Serfdom

I finally went out and bought my own copy. That is perhaps the most relevant of all. I don’t own Mein Kampf or Lord of the Flies, but I will steal a copy of Rules for Radicals from a library.

[sportutegrl]

It’ll be displayed in the “Fiction” section.

Right next to Britney Spears mother's book on parenting.

[Just mythoughts]

“Thirteen Days: How the Financial Crisis Changed the Politics of Washington,”

So was it their plan to destroy a nation on Friday the 13th. I think these people have literally gone over to the dark side.

[tropical]

LOL!!

[Churchillspirit]

It'll be displayed in the "Fiction" section.

It certainly will be as soon as I see in in my local B & N.

[raybbr]

Every time I look at this guy I think of a.....

I think Dodd belongs in jail.

The absolute hypocrisy of this guy makes me ill.

[mimaw]

Where are the investigative reporters? Why isn't there a book or series of articles in simpleton public school speak explaining to the American sheeple the goings on at Fannie and Freddie? What would the dumb$$ voter think if they understood the party that claims to be watching their backs actually were the most responsible for sticking the shiv in their backs? Where are you Bob Woodward and Washington Post? Your always there to attack and investigate Republicans? Democrats pols have a history of getting really good mortgage deals perhaps the media could investigate these and share with us peons out here how it's done. We all know how much our retirement plans have lost due to this housing bubble, I'd be curious to know how badly members of congress suffered? The whole story will never be told so as to protect dems. I hope all these supposed news sources go belly up and Dodd and Frank drop dead.

[DJ Frisat]

"How I Fixed the American Economy"
by Christopher Dodd

Once upon a time...

B.S.

Lie

More outrageous B.S.

Even bigger lies.

And I lived happily ever-after.

The End

(of the great nation we once knew)

[tropical]

I’m going to try to remember that. LOL!!

[Liz]

Looks like one...and makes about as much sense as a frog, when he opens his fool mouth.

[raybbr]

Looks like one...and makes about as much sense as a frog, when he opens his fool mouth.

That's a toad. Almost as ugly as Dodd and they both probably have venomous skin.

[Arthur McGowan]

Available is lots of 50,000 copies, 100,000 copies, and 250,000 copies. Union bosses call 1-800-PORKULUS. Have gold bullion ready.